Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Chris Robinson

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Nathaniel Branden

Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Carrie Snodgress

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

Bette Davis

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Bernadette Peters

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Joseph Lisanti

What is a dividend but your payment as an owner of the company? If you don't get that, then the only way you can profit from your investment is to sell all of it or part of it.

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Nick Lachey

We're planning on being married for a long, long time.

Bertrand Russell

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

Christiane Amanpour

That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.

William Shakespeare

I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.

Steve Baker

I always tell people I'm married to my job. I've met wonderful people here who have taken me under their wing.

Delise Denham

I didn't get married to be a single parent.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I literally married him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Donald Trump

I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies.

Charles Potter

This is a very big drive, and this is not a wealthy area,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

George Twigg

We don't want to be a place where you have to be wealthy to live here.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.

Slash

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.